Twitter To Roll Out A News Network?

by | posted: November 24, 2010
According to a report by the Reuters, Biz Stone, Co-founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter is keen on harnessing the large number of news tweets or links from its huge user base to roll out a news...
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Google Diminishing Support For IE6

by | posted: February 5, 2010
Search giant Google has announced that as of March 1, two of its web services (Google Docs and Google Sites) will stop supporting IE6. The company is urging users to switch to IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome...
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The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites

by | posted: February 1, 2010
The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s...
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Google Will Limit Free Access to Paid News Sites: New Opportunity for Smaller Publishers?

by | posted: December 3, 2009
The Google – Print News story is reminiscent of some epic Greek war, sans any physical violence and fought on a battleground that is essentially just 2 digits long. The last move from the news publishing...
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Google Launches Commerce Search Engine For Shopping portals

by | posted: November 6, 2009
One of the reasons many portals avoid integrating Google site search is the lack of customization which Google offers to them despite it earning top notch dollar for search keywords. This will be a thing...
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Breaking: Google News Makes You The Editor!

by | posted: November 5, 2009
Google News has just announced on its official blog that it is now switching on a feature called custom sections directory, which allows you to create custom sections on your Google News homepage and share...
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Google Introduces Fast Flip And Shares Revenue With Publishers For The First Time

by | posted: September 15, 2009
Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 summed it up the best, Google understands web publishing and the web better than publishers. So while the men in the business of news (and the women for that matter) are all...
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Real Time Search On Google And We Didn’t Even Know That (Nearly)

by | posted: September 14, 2009
Ran Geva, CEO of Omigli has found an interesting hack to make Google come up with real time search results. He should know it well, for Omigli is a specialized search engine that crawls UGC on many ‘real...
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Google Likes It Bi(n)g: Increases Search Box Size, Creates More News and Blog Posts To Crawl

by | posted: September 10, 2009
Last night I changed a the height of a content box in one of our websites and even added a new page but nobody noticed. Google’s Marissa Mayer who is the VP for Search Products & User Experience...
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7 Reasons Why You Should Fear Google

by | posted: May 21, 2009
Google has over the years diversified from being a just a search engine to a digital media products company. Also over the years the importance of search and its use as a window to the world has increased...
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Google Rolls Out Image and News search features.

by | posted: April 21, 2009
Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news. The first feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching...
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The Tussle Between Newspaper Publishers And Google – A Report

by | posted: April 8, 2009
Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, had to visit a convention of newspaper executives to put to rest the tension surrounding newspaper industry in the US which is accusing Google of succeeding...
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Historical Newspapers Go Digital, Thanks to Google

by | posted: September 9, 2008
Google, which recently turned 10, has been expanding itself in every direction possible. The search giant has been growing at an alarming scale and is valued around $150 billion in the market with over...
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Google news on your Mobile devices

by | posted: October 23, 2006
Google has announced availability of Google News for mobile devices in India. Google recently launched Gmail on mobile phones in India. Users can browse latest news on their web-enabled mobile devices...
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